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Dig up some prehistoric personalities with this free-to-use set highlighting dinosaurs and fossils! All pictures are from the Prints & Photographs Division unless otherwise credited.

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  "The Essence of Rex," a bronze Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur statue in Casper, Wyoming. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2015.

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  Paleontologist preparing a baby Ceratopsia skeleton at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Photo by National Photo Co., 1921.

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  Prehistoric Brontotheres that roamed South Dakota. Illustration in Titanotheres of ancient Wyoming ... by Henry Fairfield Osborn. U.S. Geological Survey, 1926. Law Library of Congress.

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  Tourist buying petrified wood near Petrified National Forest, Arizona. Photo by Russell Lee, 1939.

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  Gertie the dinosaur standing on a cliff edge looking at a mastodon. Drawing by Winsor McCay for an animated film, 1914.

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  Plaster dinosaurs in Evanston, Wyoming. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016.

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  Dinosaur exhibit at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum, Washington, DC. Photo in Farm Security Administration Collection, 1935-1945.

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  Sailors look at a Ceratopsian Skeleton at the Smithsonian. Photo in Farm Security Administration Collection, 1935-1945.

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  "Lady Megalo Arranging Her Train." Illustration by J.A. Shepherd in Wonders in Monsterland by E. D. Cuming, 1902. General Collections.

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  The Snow Lady geological feature at the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Postcard by Curt Teich & Co., 1908-1928.

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  "The Iguanodon." Illustration in The Living World by J.W. Buell. 1899. General Collections.

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  "Osteologie du Megatherium" (Bones of the Giant Sloth). Illustration by L. Coutant in Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, 1825.

• Man working on a fossilized dinosaur vertebrae. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1931.

• Sign for Petrified Wood Park, Lemmon, South Dakota. Photo by John Margolies, 1987.

• Triceratops exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Photo by Underwood & Underwood, 1904.

• Students looking for micro-fossils in rocks, Golden, Colorado. Photo by Andreas Feininger, 1942.

• Petrified (Agate) Bridge, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Panoramic photo by Haines Photo Co., 1908.

• "Columbites Parisianus" in Triassic cephalopod genera of America, by Alpheus Hyatt and James Perrin Smith. U.S. Geological Survey, 1906. Law Library of Congress.

• "Hadrosaur" in The Story of Creation, by Samuel Miner Campbell, 1877. General Collections

• Wood identification specialist, Arthur Kochler, with 12,000,000 year old wood. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1930.

• Theropod (Albertosaurus) exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, around 2000.

• Fossilized tree specimen, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2018. Prints and Photographs Division.

• Tyrannosauras Rex dinosaur skeleton at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Colorado. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2015.

• Dr. Charles Gilmore rebuilding the tail of a Sauropod at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1938.

• Uncle Beazley, a triceratops statue outside the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. (Ceratopsian dinosaur) Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, ca 1980-1994.

• "Juvenile Jaw." In Titanotheres of Ancient Wyoming ..., by Henry Fairfield Osborn, 1926. U.S. Geological Survey. Law Library of Congress.

• "Fossils of the Wewoka formation of Oklahoma, Gastropoda." Illustration in Fauna of the Wewoka formation, by George H. Girty, 1914. U.S. Geological Service Bulletin. Law Library of Congress.

• Petrified log near Holbrook, Arizona. Postcard, 1906.